Sebastien was right, the latest set of updates that came down yesterday did fix the issue for me (gdm 2.20.6-0ubuntu1):
Commit Log for Sat May 17 00:11:25 2008 De volgende pakketten zijn bijgewerkt: gdm (2.20.5-0ubuntu3) to 2.20.6-0ubuntu1 gtk2-engines-pixbuf (2.12.9-3ubuntu3) to 2.12.9-3ubuntu4 libglib2.0-0 (2.16.3-1) to 2.16.3-1ubuntu1 libgtk2.0-0 (2.12.9-3ubuntu3) to 2.12.9-3ubuntu4 libgtk2.0-bin (2.12.9-3ubuntu3) to 2.12.9-3ubuntu4 libgtk2.0-common (2.12.9-3ubuntu3) to 2.12.9-3ubuntu4 libnautilus-extension1 (1:2.22.2-0ubuntu5) to 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu6 nautilus (1:2.22.2-0ubuntu5) to 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu6 nautilus-data (1:2.22.2-0ubuntu5) to 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu6 -- Shutting down GDM takes a long time. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195434 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs